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 | Philosophy of Sport: Critical Readings, Crucial Issues Product# 460550458 Selling for $72 "This user-friendly collection of essays on topical issues in philosophy of sport draws principally from philosophy, but contains some writings from sociological and psychological literature that has a philosophical slant. The anthology contains 44 essays on diverse and contemporary issues in sport from different perspectives. Each article addresses critical and topical issues such as “What is Sport?” “Are female athletes of the same rank as men?” “Is sport a species of art?” and each invites critical discussion. The essays address the following issues: the nature of the sport; aesthetics and sport; ethics and sport; sportspersonship; cheating; winning; violence; performance-enhancing drugs; epistemological issues in sport; sport and society; heroism; gender; race; pedagogy; and sport in society. For athletes and sports fans interested in the philosophy of sport." |
 | Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts; Studies in Mission and Constraint Product# 460768075 Selling for $120 "Produced and edited under the auspices of the Yale University Program on Nonprofit Organizations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, this new series investigates the implications of current research in nonprofit studies for public policy." |
 | Cogitations; A Study of the Cogito in Relation to the Philosophy of Logic and Language and a Study of Them in Relation to the Cogito Product# 460768108 Selling for $53 "Descartes's cogito ergo sum is at once one of the simplest and most puzzling of philosophical arguments. Although most philosophers agree that the argument is valid, they do not agree about why it is valid. And the most generally accepted account, on which the inference becomes a standard logical argument once a missing premise is supplied, contradicts Descartes's own statements about the cogito." |
 | Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience Product# 460768122 Selling for $60 "This volume is the first to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contribution to the development of the American consciousness. Fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical, theological, and philosophical thinking on Edwards, locating him in his full historical context and demonstrating the continuity of his influence." |
 | Material Dreams; Southern California through the 1920s Product# 460768181 Selling for $42 "In this book, the author is focusing on the making of Southern California, its design and material construction in the early and mid-twentieth century, with special reference to the visions and metaphors underlying such a process. This is also a book about design, construction, and identity, whether in aqueducts, architecture, gardens, city-plans, transportation systems, hotels, studio sets, symphony orchestras, or hydroelectric grids." |
 | The Invisible God; The Earliest Christians on Art Product# 460768226 Selling for $128 "This study challenges a popular shibboleth, namely that Christianity came into the world as an essentially iconophobic form of religiosity, one that was opposed on principle to the use of visual images in religious contexts. It is argued here that this view misrepresents the evidence as we have it (consisting of both literary and archaeological fragments) - furthermore this misrepresentation is conscious and deliberate, designed to serve the interests of modern (and not so modern) confessional points of view. The picture presented here is of a religious minority, pre-Constantinian Christians, wrestling at the moment of their birth with questions of self-identity and seeking to submit themselves and their beliefs to open and public scrutiny. Only gradually over the course of the second century did Christians manage to formulate a definition of themselves as a distinct and separate religious culture. They began to draw visible boundaries and commenced the complicated process of endowing their communities with the marks of ethnic and cultural distinction. One of t" |